Quote Originally Posted by eestlinc
yea Big Fish was mediocre at best.

however, I think the first Keaton/Nicholson Batman was an amazing movie and this one will be hard pressed to exceed it in my eyes, but I'll give it a chance. And for those who laud Batman and Batman Returns equally, as someone who has wathced them back to back (on a friday night no less, sad times) Returns is a shadow of the original's greatness.
I agree with all this.

I really loved the movie but I still think the original was better. I might like this one more right now, but that might be because it is new. We'll see how it fares after I watch it a few times. At least it was dark. The last two films had too much color.

I think Christian Bale was great, and it was refreshing to see the 'mask' of Bruce Wayne again. I don't think anyone could have done this better than Keaton in Batman ('Open up twelve, thirteen more cases?'), but at least the movie included it.

Liam Neeson was the best, even if he never called Batman 'detective'.